NJ trooper's triplets in school bus crash: 1 dead, 2 hurt

Updated at 6:40 p.m. ET: CHESTERFIELD, N.J. - A school bus carrying elementary school children collided Thursday with a dump truck, killing an 11-year-old daughter of a state trooper and critically injuring three other students — two of them the triplet sisters of the dead girl, authorities said.

The accident occurred shortly after 8 a.m. at a four-way intersection in the town of Chesterfield, south of Trenton. It sent the bus, which was carrying 25 students, crashing sideways into a traffic signal pole, crumpling the side. Police said 17 students received injuries, most of them minor.

State police identified the father of the triplets as Sgt. Anthony Tezsla, The Associated Press reported.

His daughter Isabella was killed. Her sisters, Sophie and Natalie, were listed in critical condition at Camden's Cooper University Hospital, along with Jonathan Zdybel, also 11.

A parent who came to pick up her bruised children said there were a number of injuries and that many of the injured students were hospitalized.